"Our imitation of God in this life--that is, our willed imitation as distinct from any of the likenesses which He has impressed upon our natures or states--must be an imitation of God incarnate: our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions. For this, so strangely unlike anything we can attribute to the Divine life in itself, is apparently not only like, but is, the Divine life operating under human conditions." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, Introduction, paragraph 12.Thank you God, for taking on human flesh and showing us how to live the way you created us to be. Thank you Jesus, for dying on the cross for my failure to live a fully human life. I praise you Holy Spirit for raising Jesus from the dead and breathing new life into me, that I might walk in the footsteps of Christ and imitate him by your power and grace. Amen.
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But Jesus drew apart, alone in fact, to gain energy, power, in the presence of his Father. One of the busy days of his life is recorded in Mark 1:21-39. And we are given to think that this is a typical snapshot of a typical day. Jesus went from teaching and casting out a demon in the synagogue, to lunch at the home of Simon and Andrew where he healed Simon's mother-in-law. Then the whole town gathered at the door that evening seeking Jesus' healing power. After all that was over Jesus went out, very early the next morning, to pray alone. But even there his disciples sought him out and he returned to the world of relationships and clamoring demands once again.
So, I think, Jesus was the perfect balance of extrovert and introvert--an active contemplative.